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Tonight's editor: patrickz
With contributions from: citisven and WarrenS
Here's a bit of great news for you greenies, animal lovers, and humans who want to protect the climate that is the basis for human civilization.
The Obama administration is setting aside 187,000 square miles in Alaska as a "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could add restrictions to future offshore drilling for oil and gas.
The total, which includes areas of sea ice off the Alaska coast, is about 13,000 acres less than in a preliminary plan released last year.
Tom Strickland, assistant Interior secretary for fish, wildlife and parks, said the designation would help polar bears stave off extinction, recognizing that the greatest threat is the melting of Arctic sea ice caused by climate change.
Silly Republicans. They think they can trash talk Climate Change and treat it like their personal punching bag. Despite all the evidence they keep badmouthing Climate Change, calling it a joke, a "hoax," a get rich quick scheme by Algore based on "junk science" and a plot by the UN and the EPA to steal our precious bodily fluids freedoms.
Well I have news for them. Climate Change doesn't care what Republicans or Teabaggers think of it. It is amused at your puny efforts to deny its existence to score cheap political points. It just keeps moving along at an ever increasing rate.
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